History

Ion Bratianu: Romania

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Keith Hitchin

To be published in June 2010 on the 90th anniversary of the Treaty of Trianon with Hungary, this biography brings back to memories Ion Bratianu, one of the lesser-known figures who attended the Peace Conferences, largely because after 1945 the Romanian Communist regime virtually wrote him out of the country’s history until its fall in 1989.

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Beneš, Masaryk: Czechoslovakia

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Peter Neville

To be published March 2010.... Tomáš Masaryk was hard at work within a month of the outbreak of war lobbying in Paris and London for an independent Bohemia, still a major component of the Austrian Empire within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, which would incorporate the predominantly Slovak regions of northern Hungary.

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Wellington Koo: China

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Jonathan Clements

Gu Weijun, a.k.a. Wellington Koo was China’s first representative to the League of Nations, and ended up as acting president of Republican China during the unrest of the period 1926-27...

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Prince Saionji: Japan

Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Jonathan Clements

The Japanese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference did not have the Japanese prime or foreign ministers with them as they had only just been elected and had plenty to do back home. The delegation was instead led by Prince Saionji, the dashing ‘kingmaker’ of early 20th-century Japanese politics ...

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Admiral Togo

The Nelson of the East
by Jonathan Clements

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